Carter Findley’s newest book is tentatively entitled “Dreams of Empire: A New History of the Ottoman Empire” (forthcoming from Oxford University Press). His most recently published book is Enlightening Europe on Islam and the Ottomans: Mouradgea d’Ohsson and His Masterpiece (Brill, 2019). He is the author of other prize-winning books in Ottoman history, including The Turks in World History (Oxford, 2005), as well as a world-history textbook now in its seventh edition. His books have been translated into Turkish, Chinese, and Japanese. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard and B.A. from Yale. The won the Mentoring Award of the Middle East Studies Association (2021) and the Pioneer in World History Award of the World History Association (2019).

Nuran Yıldırım

İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü’nden mezun oldu (1970). İstanbul Üniversitesi İstanbul Tıp Fakültesi Tıp Tarihi ve Deontoloji Kürsüsünde doktorasını tamamlayıp, M.Sc.Dr. (Tıp Bilimleri Doktoru) unvanını aldı (1982). İstanbul Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi’nde 1993 yılında doçent, 1996’da profesör oldu. İstanbul Tıp Fakültesi Tıp Tarihi ve Etik Anabilim Dalı Başkanlığı yaptı (2011-2015). Bu görevinden emekli oldu (2015). Halen Bezmiâlem Vakıf Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Tıp Tarihi ve Etik Anabilim Dalı Başkanı olan Yıldırım, Osmanlı ve Erken Cumhuriyet sağlık tarihleri üzerine çalışmalarını sürdürmektedir. Türkçe tıp yazmaları, 19. yüzyıl Osmanlı ve erken Cumhuriyet’te sağlık tarihi kapsamında; tıp eğitimi, hekimler, hastaneler, eczacılık, diş hekimliği ve hemşirelik tarihleri, salgınlar ve bulaşıcı hastalıklar, karantina teşkilatı, aşıların tarihi ile etik tarihi alanlarında yayınları olup ulusal ve uluslararası düzeyde; ikisi İngilizce olmak üzere 14 telif kitabı, kitapta bölümler ile çok sayıda makale ve ansiklopedi maddesi yanında küratörlük yaptığı iki sağlık tarihi müzesi ve sergisinin katalogları yayınlanmıştır. 

Modern Japonya Tarihi, Tarihyaziciligi, Asya Tarihi, Japon Dis Politikasi ve Uluslararasi Iliskiler Tarihi, Kuresel Tarih, Japon Pan -Asyaciligi ve Pan-Islam iliskisi, Modern Japonya'nin Turk ve Islam dunyalari ile iliskisi, Turk-Japon Iliskileri. 

Sırrı Emrah Üçer, born in Istanbul in 1981, graduated from Vefa Lisesi in 1999. He obtained his bachelor's degree in Economics from the Faculty of Economics at Istanbul University in 2003. He furthered his education by completing a master's program in International Relations from the Faculty of Political Sciences at Istanbul University in 2008. In 2018, he successfully finished his doctoral studies in the field of Modern Turkish History at the Atatürk Institute of Boğaziçi University.

Since 2009, he has been actively engaged as a faculty member in the Department of Economics at Yıldız Technical University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences. His primary research interests encompass the fields of economics and history.

In July 2023, Üçer was awarded the title of Associate Professor in the field of Economic Thought by the Council of Higher Education (YÖK) in Turkey. For more details about Üçer's academic profile according to YÖK, please refer to: http://bit.ly/3cTIvP8 

Cihangir Gündoğdu is a faculty member in the Department of History at Istanbul Bilgi University. His research interests include animal history, medical history, and the social and cultural history of the late Ottoman Empire. Gündoğdu's work has been published in journals such as Middle Eastern Studies, Society and Animals, Social History of Medicine, and the Journal of Turkish and Ottoman Studies, as well as in international book collections and various refereed and non-refereed journals in Turkey. Currently, he is working on a book project to be published by Brill Publications, which examines dog-human relations in the 19th-century Ottoman Empire. Cihangir Gündoğdu is one of the founders of the Istanbul Bilgi University research group Hayvânât- Hayvan Tarihi Ağı, along with İbrahim Can Usta, Deniz İnce, and Ege Günalp.

Graduating from the Department of Economics at the Middle East Technical University in 2007, Bayraktar has received his M.A. degree from the Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History at Boğaziçi University in 2009. Bayraktar holds a joint Ph.D. degree (cotutelle) from Boğaziçi University and École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) with the dissertation titled "Yurtluk-Ocaklıks: Land, Politics of Notables and Society in Ottoman Kurdistan, 1820-1890." Before joining the Social Sciences University of Ankara, Bayraktar conducted post-doc research in the Research Center for Anatalian Civilizations (ANAMED) at Koç University (2017-18) and in the Near and Middle Eastern Studies (Seminar für Nahoststudien) at the University of Basel (2018-2019). 

İngilizce

Sırrı Emrah Üçer, born in Istanbul in 1981, graduated from Vefa Lisesi in 1999. He obtained his bachelor's degree in Economics from the Faculty of Economics at Istanbul University in 2003. He furthered his education by completing a master's program in International Relations from the Faculty of Political Sciences at Istanbul University in 2008. In 2018, he successfully finished his doctoral studies in the field of Modern Turkish History at the Atatürk Institute of Boğaziçi University.

Since 2009, he has been actively engaged as a faculty member in the Department of Economics at Yıldız Technical University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences. His primary research interests encompass the fields of economics and history.

In July 2023, Üçer was awarded the title of Associate Professor in the field of Economic Thought by the Council of Higher Education (YÖK) in Turkey. For more details about Üçer's academic profile according to YÖK, please refer to: http://bit.ly/3cTIvP8 

Cihangir Gündoğdu is a faculty member in the Department of History at Istanbul Bilgi University. His research interests include animal history, medical history, and the social and cultural history of the late Ottoman Empire. Gündoğdu's work has been published in journals such as Middle Eastern Studies, Society and Animals, Social History of Medicine, and the Journal of Turkish and Ottoman Studies, as well as in international book collections and various refereed and non-refereed journals in Turkey. Currently, he is working on a book project to be published by Brill Publications, which examines dog-human relations in the 19th-century Ottoman Empire. Cihangir Gündoğdu is one of the founders of the Istanbul Bilgi University research group Hayvânât- Hayvan Tarihi Ağı, along with İbrahim Can Usta, Deniz İnce, and Ege Günalp.